Affiliate Webinar Archive - DPGMIGAffiliateLeaders

Archived Webinars

Please review the archived webinars below for trainings on how to improve the operations or your affiliate. Recordings and slides of all live webinars are published here within a week of their original date.

Academy Resources and Support

Review how to utilize the Affiliate Resource website, DMIS, and understand the support available to affiliates from the Academy.

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DMIS

Review how to utilize your membership list database - DMIS.

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What is Governance?

Understand what is meant by governance and how it impacts you as a volunteer leader. Learn about legal responsibilities and understand basic operations of running a non profit.

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Develop and Utilizing Policies

Understand when to develop policies as well as how to properly utilize them including understanding when to update them.

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Fraud Protection

Understand common types of fraud used to target small non profits and how to mitigate the chances your affiliate will fall victim to fraud.

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Website Policies and Best Practices

Learn why website policies are important and how to keep your website up to date and compliant.

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Collecting and Leveraging Member Feedback

Understand how to effectively engage with your membership to collect useful data for decision making. Learn how to use this information to guide your affiliate's operations.

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Subscriber and Supporter Membership

Develop subscriber and supporter membership categories as another revenue stream. Understand the differences and how to set each type up.

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Contracts and Copyrights

Gain understanding of the importance of contracts and what to look for when evaluating. Understand the legal importance of copyrights and the legal ramifications for copyright violations. Learn how to protect your affiliate through contracts and adherence to copyright law.

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March 2024

Fiscal Year Transition

Prepare for the upcoming transition of volunteers to ensure all business at the end of the fiscal year is closed out, and you are setting your affiliate up for success going into the new year. We will talk about legal/financial obligations, Academy’s Principles of Affiliation, and ensuring your operations are in place to start the new year.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: Affiliate Presidents, Presidents-Elect, Committee Chairs, and Executive Directors

45 minutes

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January 2024

Evaluating Programs and Volunteer Structure to Empower Productive Change

As the Academy has seen a decline in membership due to demographic shifts affiliates are also faced with a changing landscape financially and in terms of volunteer engagement. This session will help you evaluate your efforts in respect to available resources, identify opportunities for change, and learn how to facilitate change within your affiliate. This session will empower you to take a critical eye to how you operate and shift to ensure long term success.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: Affiliate Presidents, Presidents-Elect, Committee Chairs, and Executive Directors

50 minutes

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December 2023

Academy Update

Hear from Academy President Lauri Wright, CEO Wylecia Wiggs Harris, and Treasurer Krista Yoder about their vision for the Academy as well as the current membership and financial situation. Utilize this information with your board to understand changes the Academy is making as we face a new financial reality.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: All board members

60 minutes

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November 2023

Planning for the 2024-2025 Membership Year

Treasurers and affiliate leaders will take a closer look into annual planning and budget planning as introduced during the treasurers’ orientation in June. Learn how to use a budget as a tool to help drive success within the affiliate. We will walk through how to leverage your strategic plan to create committee plans of work for the next year including budget projections.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS ELECT, TREASURERS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

45 minutes

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September 2023

Volunteer Leadership - Leading Volunteers as a Volunteer

Leading volunteers as a volunteer presents a unique challenge. This training will focus on identifying key strengths in your volunteers, delegating tasks based on skills, empowering volunteers, and leading asynchronous work. As volunteers are busier than ever and harder to find, we will focus on how to get the most out of your volunteers and avoid burnout for both you and them.

60 minutes

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July 2023

Conflict Resolution

Working with others always presents a challenge, and when you are in a volunteer organization there is the opportunity for passionate conversations to escalate to conflict. This session will focus on identifying potential for conflict and how to mitigate those situations as well as how to address conflict when it arises. Empower your leaders to conduct productive conversations to keep volunteer efforts on the common goal to move the affiliate forward.

This presentation was approved for 1 CEU under the 175 activity type. To receive your CEU certificate, please email Carrie Kiley at ckiley@eatright.org.

50 minutes

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June 2023

President Orientation

Start your President year off on the right foot. We’ll refresh from President Elect training about your and your board’s role, understanding the basics of managing an affiliate, and setting yourself and your volunteers up for a successful year.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS

50 minutes

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June 2023

President Elect Orientation

Kick off your year as President Elect with a better understanding of how an affiliate board operates, what is governance (and what does it mean for you), how to work with your President to prep for next year and prepare for President Elect training in the winter.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS ELECT

40 minutes

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June 2023

Treasurer Orientation

This training will kick off the start of the new membership year by learning how to navigate the new position of Treasurer and access resources to help in the role. Topics covered include role responsibilities, maximizing policies and procedures to prevent fraud, tactics for record keeping and reconciliation, and the budget process.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT TREASURERS

35 minutes

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June 2023

Secretary Orientation

This training will focus on timelines and recommendations for reports prior to board calls, compiling consent and working agendas, running a meeting, the motion process, and taking minutes. Secretaries will also learn proper record keeping, tips for centralizing files, and how long documentation legally needs to be kept by the affiliate.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT SECRETARIES

35 minutes

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June 2023

Executive Director Orientation

This training will go over Academy resources including calendar of events, webinar trainings, affiliate manual, DMIS, and where to turn for questions. We will also go over the Principles of Affiliate assessment and required documents to upload.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

50 minutes

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April 2023

Strategic Planning

Get an overview of complete strategic planning including environmental and organizational scans, developing effective surveys, interviews, and focus groups, and creating strategic plan goals. From there we will talk about incorporating your strategic plan into your annual planning to ensure daily activities are contributing to your larger, long-term goals.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTS ELECT, COMMITTEE CHAIRS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

45 minutes

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February 2023

Volunteer Recruitment and Retention

When trying to recruit new leaders to your organization, it can be challenging to create the right language and messaging. This webinar will help give you a better understanding of how to create the appropriate messaging to help recruit new volunteer leaders in a concise way. We will also focus on methods for retaining your current volunteers through creating a positive culture, providing volunteer support, and recognizing accomplishments.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTS ELECT, NOMINATING COMMITTEE CHAIRS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

55 minutes

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November 2022

Meeting and Event Planning

Creating a successful event/conference ultimately comes down to planning. This webinar will delve into what you need to do to put on an event/conference that both meets the needs of your members as well as be a revenue generating piece for the organization. We will focus on the complete cycle of an annual conference, but utilize these principles for all your events.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS ELECT, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/MEETING CHAIRS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

35 minutes

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OCTOBER 2022

Sponsorship and Revenue Generation

Ensuring that your organization has a healthy and active revenue stream is vital to the long-term success of the organization. This webinar will help to give insights and best practices for creating a consistent sponsorship program and ideas on revenue generation. We will focus on creating a sponsor prospectus, recruiting and maintaining relationships with your sponsors, and non-traditional revenue streams.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTS ELECT, SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

45 minutes

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August 2022

Program Tracking and Project Management

Translating your strategic plans into annual goals is only your first step. Executing those goals and tracking your progress takes organization and project management. This training will focus on walking through how to create and implement a tracking plan for your programs utilizing project management techniques.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: AFFILIATE AND DISTRICT PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTS ELECT, COMMITTEE CHAIRS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

35 minutes

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March 2022

Update Governing Documents – Leveraging Volunteer Leaders

Governing documents are what keeps an organization going by establishing consistent standards and ways of doing things. In this webinar we will discuss how to leverage your volunteer leaders to ensure all governing documents and best practice resources are updated on a regular basis.

Recommended Audience: Presidents, Presidents Elect, Committee Chairs, District Leaders, and Executive Directors

35 minutes

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February 2022

Implementing New Benefits and Programs

Leverage survey and evaluation results along with your strategic plan to create new ideas for member benefits and programs. Learn how to create a pilot plan for new programs, evaluate results, and decide how best to move forward. This webinar focuses on project management strategies to help ensure the highest chance of success for new programs.

Recommended Audience: Presidents, Presidents Elect, Treasurers, Committee Chairs, District Leaders, and Executive Directors

40 minutes

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November 2021

Volunteer Recruitment and Retention - What Messaging Works?

When trying to recruit new leaders to your organization, it can be challenging to create the right language and messaging. This webinar will help give you a better understanding of how to create the appropriate messaging to help recruit new volunteer leaders in a concise way. We’ll finish with understanding how to build relationships to retain volunteers and move them to higher level positions.

Recommended Audience: Presidents, Presidents Elect, Executive Directors, Nominating Committee Chairs

40 minutes

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September 2021

Member Communications and Marketing

Create a cohesive brand, establish a communication schedule, and understand how to leverage different media to get your message out. This webinar will focus on cross committee communication, building marketing and promotion into benefits and program timelines.

Recommended Audience: Presidents, Presidents Elect, Executive Directors, Communications Chairs

35 minutes

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March 2021

Leveraging Social Media

The goal of this presentation is to help affiliate leaders better understand the different types, trends, and to dos of social media in order to better promote their affiliate and communicate with their membership.

In this training learn about the different types of social media and why they are important, what are the trends and etiquette for social media, and tools to help your social media campaigns succeed.

Recommended Audience: President, President-Elect, Communications Committee, Administrator/Executive Director

35 minutes

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